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2ndcommandment ambrose ames aquinas augustine bagchi barker bavinck beale beeke berkhof bernard beza bierma bolton boston bower brakel bridge bucey burgess butner calvin carmichael carpenter carson casselli charnock cho christ clark colquhoun confessionalism coxhead damascus davenant davis decampos dennison dickson dolezal dpoythress duby duguid dunnam dunson durham ferguson fesko fink flavel fortunato frame gaffin gamble garcia garner gatiss gerstner giles gillespie gonzalez goodwin gootjes gouge guthrie henry hiestand history hperkins jacomb jones jue kevan klauber kline knox krans kruger lane leigh letham lewis lillback lindberg lombard luther lynch mackay manetsch marriage mcgrath mcgraw mcwilliams miller muller murray oberman oliphint opc osborne owen packer pentecost perkins phillips pictet poythress predestination prosperaquitaine ralphdavis rcross resurrection roberts roney rsb rutherford salazar selderhuis shannon shedd sibbes silva sinnema spiritualgifts sproul strange svisser swain synopsis teellinck theonomy thompson tipton trueman tuckney turretin urcna vanasselt vandixhoorn vanmastricht vanraalte vantil venema versteeg vos waddington wallace warfield waters watson white whitman williams witsius woolsey zwingli { timeline }

The Fourth Component of Faith

Because several acts coincide in saving faith—knowledge, assent, consent, trust, and so forth—we must observe that one particular act is predominant among them—the act that when present, salvation is present, and when absent, salvation is absent; thus the act that is called saving. What act is it then? The text answers, “Receiving,” and the apostle gives this his support (Col. 2:5–7; Phil. 3:8–9, 12; Gal. 4:14; cf. Matt. 26:26).

 

Petrus van Mastricht. Theoretical-Practical Theology: Faith in the Triune God, ed. Joel R. Beeke, trans. Todd Rester, vol. 2 (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2019), 44


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